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    The surname Bream

    A surname, carried by 674 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex B650

    Bream: #33,772 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Bream #33,772, 674 people Bream: #33,772 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Bream #33,772, 674 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bream is more common than 79.2% of them.

    Origin

    English surname, from an obsolete derivative of the root of the noun broom. Also from the adjective breme (“famous”). Compare the spelling variant Braham.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 674 people named Bream in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 458,079 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 691.

    #33,772
    rank among US surnames
    674
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #31,621)

    Who is named Bream

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    98% of people named Bream identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 98%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Bream

    Bream has the Soundex code B650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B650.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Bream come from?
    English surname, from an obsolete derivative of the root of the noun broom. Also from the adjective breme (“famous”). Compare the spelling variant Braham.
    How common is the surname Bream?
    674 people in the United States had the surname Bream in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 458,079 Americans. It ranked 33,772nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Bream?
    In the 2010 Census, 98% of people named Bream identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Bream getting more or less common?
    Less common. 691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 674 in 2010, down 2.5%.